Airlines May Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight' - Page 2 - PhillyBlog

frankdialogue · #11 (**permalink**) 06-05-2008, 03:24 PM

AIRLINES MIGHT START TREATING PASSENGERS LIKE FREIGHT

We are freight!...remember when you used to apply for a job, you would speak to someone from 'Personnel'?...the, it became 'Human Resources'...now, I actually hace seen a few companies using the term 'Talent Evaluators'!...we have gone from 'people' to 'human soybeans' to 'whores' ('talent')!

ddelorenzo · #12 (**permalink**) 06-05-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by frankdialogue

AIRLINES MIGHT START TREATING PASSENGERS LIKE FREIGHT

We are freight!...remember when you used to apply for a job, you would speak to someone from 'Personnel'?...the, it became 'Human Resources'...now, I actually hace seen a few companies using the term 'Talent Evaluators'!...we have gone from 'people' to 'human soybeans' to 'whores' ('talent')!

It's not so bad once you know it. At least then you can plan accordingly.

lhalldena · #13 (**permalink**) 06-05-2008, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rabidog

continuing on my thought as well...

here's my idea for the airlines. charge us whatever you want, but get smarter about how you spin it. american airlines is currently looking pretty cruddy and desperate with their new $15 per checked bag policy. makes me personally not want to fly them (though in all reality i'm always going to book the airline that comes in with the cheapest fare).
here's a different, and more pleasant way to spin that: just build in another $15 to the price of every flight, and don't say a thing about it. instead, announce that you will be giving away a $15 voucher to anyone who does not check a bag. when you go to check in, be it on the computer or at a kiosk or at the counter, you would select the "0 bags to check" option and a nice $15 voucher (or check, or cash, whatev) would spit out with your ticket. what do you all think?

I agree. With all the nickel and dimeing they're doing, I think passengers would actually be much happier if they just raised ticket prices instead of charging for a hundred different little things that you can't keep track of anymore.

(In fact, I just googled "nickel and dimeing" to see if it's actually spelled that way, and the fourth result is a Consumerist article on AirTran charging $15 extra for a seat in the emergency exit row.)

emckelvy · #14 (**permalink**) 06-06-2008, 07:55 PM

I guess someone took the idea of weighing passengers to determine air fare seriously:

http://flyderrie-air.com/

gone down south · #15 (**permalink**) 06-06-2008, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by emckelvy

I guess someone took the idea of weighing passengers to determine air fare seriously:

http://flyderrie-air.com/

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daninnj · #16 (**permalink**) 06-06-2008, 10:39 PM

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Philadelphia Media Holdings spokesman Jay Devine said the goal is to "demonstrate the power of our brands in generating awareness and generating traffic for our advertisers, and put a smile on people's faces."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080606/D914OT3O1.html

Simon Wolf · #17 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 12:04 AM

Can we please route more funding to Amtrak? If you take the train, you don't have to deal with this crap.

emckelvy · #18 (**permalink**) 06-07-2008, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Simon Wolf

Can we please route more funding to Amtrak? If you take the train, you don't have to deal with this crap.

It would take billions of dollars and many more years to make train travel on par with what you see in Europe and Japan. Can you imagine the growth you'd see in Philadelphia if train travel was faster between here, DC and New York.

phillyaggie · #19 (**permalink**) 06-08-2008, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by gone down south

Keep reading to the bottom of the page

No kidding!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_w..._about_fa.html

Simon Wolf · #20 (**permalink**) 06-13-2008, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by emckelvy

It would take billions of dollars and many more years to make train travel on par with what you see in Europe and Japan. Can you imagine the growth you'd see in Philadelphia if train travel was faster between here, DC and New York.

I sometimes dream about it being as easy (and cheap) to get from Philly to NYC by train as it is to get from Florence to Rome (the distances are about the same), but I know it's unlikely to happen in my lifetime.